Table 2.
Association of serum heavy metal concentrations with the blood pressure, BMI, hematology, and blood chemistry of patients with acute ischemic stroke.
| S-Pb (μg/L) | S-Hg (μg/L) | S-As (μg/L) | S-Cd (μg/L) | |||||||||
| Variables | No. | r ∗ | P-value | No. | r ∗ | P-value | No. | r ∗ | P-value | No. | r ∗ | P-value |
| BMI | 33 | 0.153 | .396 | 30 | 0.258 | .168 | 33 | 0.293 | .098 | 33 | 0.138 | .445 |
| Blood pressure | ||||||||||||
| SBP | 30 | −0.038 | .843 | 27 | −0.016 | .937 | 30 | 0.247 | .189 | 30 | −0.099 | .601 |
| DBP | 30 | 0.038 | .840 | 27 | 0.180 | .369 | 30 | 0.099 | .604 | 30 | −0.016 | .932 |
| Blood chemistry | ||||||||||||
| HbA1c | 26 | −0.064 | .755 | 23 | −0.175 | .424 | 26 | 0.021 | .918 | 26 | −0.401 | .042 |
| FBG | 31 | −0.024 | .897 | 28 | −0.119 | .545 | 31 | 0.263 | .152 | 31 | −0.390 | .030 |
| TG | 32 | 0.136 | .457 | 29 | 0.174 | .365 | 32 | −0.099 | .588 | 32 | 0.070 | .703 |
| T-CHO | 33 | −0.029 | .875 | 30 | 0.180 | .342 | 33 | 0.090 | .619 | 33 | 0.033 | .855 |
| HDL-C | 33 | −0.138 | .445 | 30 | 0.234 | .213 | 33 | 0.122 | .498 | 33 | 0.192 | .284 |
| LDL-C | 33 | 0.042 | .814 | 30 | −0.059 | .759 | 33 | −0.009 | .960 | 33 | −0.120 | .505 |
| BUN | 33 | −0.090 | .617 | 30 | 0.210 | .265 | 33 | 0.067 | .713 | 33 | 0.030 | .869 |
| Crea | 33 | 0.358 | .041 | 30 | 0.233 | .215 | 33 | −0.046 | .798 | 33 | 0.445 | .009 |
| Na | 33 | −0.403 | .020 | 30 | −0.118 | .536 | 33 | 0.189 | .292 | 33 | −0.202 | .260 |
| K | 33 | −0.206 | .251 | 30 | 0.276 | .140 | 33 | −0.044 | .810 | 33 | −0.006 | .973 |
| GOT | 30 | −0.166 | .381 | 27 | 0.246 | .216 | 30 | 0.173 | .360 | 30 | 0.200 | .289 |
| GPT | 33 | −0.101 | .575 | 30 | 0.166 | .381 | 33 | −0.083 | .647 | 33 | −0.066 | .715 |
| CRP | 30 | 0.280 | .134 | 27 | 0.001 | .995 | 30 | −0.081 | .672 | 30 | 0.138 | .467 |
| UA | 30 | 0.233 | .215 | 27 | 0.347 | .076 | 30 | 0.089 | .641 | 30 | 0.283 | .129 |
| ESR | 33 | −0.097 | .592 | 30 | −0.154 | .418 | 33 | 0.121 | .501 | 33 | −0.256 | .150 |
| Hematology | ||||||||||||
| WBC | 33 | 0.231 | .197 | 30 | 0.052 | .786 | 33 | 0.014 | .937 | 33 | 0.181 | .314 |
| RBC | 33 | 0.399 | .022 | 30 | −0.169 | .373 | 33 | −0.271 | .127 | 33 | 0.133 | .459 |
| HGB | 33 | 0.507 | .003 | 30 | 0.079 | .680 | 33 | −0.114 | .527 | 33 | 0.350 | .046 |
| HCT | 33 | 0.484 | .004 | 30 | 0.084 | .659 | 33 | −0.141 | .434 | 33 | 0.335 | .057 |
| PLT | 33 | 0.135 | .454 | 30 | 0.008 | .967 | 33 | −0.229 | .200 | 33 | −0.086 | .636 |
BMI = body mass index, BUN = blood urea nitrogen, Crea = serum creatinine, CRP = C-reactive protein, DBP = diastolic blood pressure, ESR = erythrocyte sedimentation rate, FBG = fasting blood sugar, TG = triglyceride, GOT = glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, GPT = glutamic pyruvic transaminase, HbA1c = glycosylated hemoglobin, HCT = hematocrit, HDL-C = high density lipoprotein cholesterol, HGB = hemoglobin, LDL-C = low density lipoprotein cholesterol, PLT = platelets, RBC = red blood cells, S-As = serum arsenic, SBP = systolic blood pressure, S-Cd = serum cadmium, S-Hg = serum mercury, S-Pb = serum lead, T-CHO = cholesterol, UA = uric acid, WBC = white blood cells.
r, correlation coefficients and P-values were estimated using Spearman correlation coefficient.
The significance of bold values is a P-value of <.05.